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Anybody here a long time resident of this area, or Cheyenne? The refinery here used to be that of the Frontier Oil Co.

(Rarin' To Go Gasoline).  In 2011 Frontier merged with Holly to form HollyFrontier, and I can pull up aerial photos

showing the Eldorado refinery with a lot of WHITE painted storage tanks.  I want to paint a couple of model well-side

storage tanks....seriously doubt if they were white, but can't find any photos.  Many in the field are a very dirty black,

but I will have Frontier Oil emblems on them and would like to be sure?

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I've been around a lot of oil fields, and it is certainly not typical to have an oil company logo on the storage tanks or brine tanks which are out in the field.  Normally, they are painted with aluminum paint and gradually accumulate a grey color, with some streaks of grimy black and a little rust.  Usually an independent producer and not an oil company owns the wells, along with the pump jacks and tanks.  In California oil fields it was more typical for oil companies to own large leases and to pump their own crude, but, again, there was no need for logos in the field.

 

At refineries, however, tanks are often white with oil company logos.

Well, thanks, #90, I may have to repaint.  I painted one dirty black (as I commonly

see them near walking beams in the Midwest), and one white.  And, no, I can't say

I've seen oil company logos on any of the tanks, pumps, or whatever in the field, either.  And, srfulton, the aerial views of both Cheyenne and El Dorado Frontier refineries do show mostly white tanks.  But I am not building a refinery, just storage tanks for a couple of pumps.

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